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Possibility of packaging gnome-kiosk for 22.04 LTS?

Asked by Pauli Heikkinen

Gnome-kiosk is currently available for 24.04 LTS. Now, I'd like to use gnome-kiosk but due to some other dependencies that aren't ready for 24.04 yet can't transition to that release for some time still.

I checked that release 42.0 of gnome-kiosk should, in principle, be good enough at least for me and also work with the version of mutter used in 22.04. Would packaging that version for 22.04 LTS be a thing someone would consider, or is this a show-stopper?

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

This is not fitting into the standard strategy of Ubuntu and its releases.

It may, however, be feasible in form of a package in a PPA (see e.g. https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA ) or a backport (see e.g. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports )

In both cases you have to find someone who does the work (or you do it yourself).

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Pauli Heikkinen (wapauhei) said : 		#2

Thanks for the clarification.

I don't think gnome-kiosk 42.0 was ever packaged for Ubuntu, it started with a later version. So there can't be a backport.

I could learn to use PPA, doesn't look hard. However, after discussing this with colleagues I ended up just waiting for the dependencies to reach 24.04 compatibility. Shouldn't take too long now.

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Pauli Heikkinen (wapauhei) said : 		#3

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.